-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry for not attempting to provide an explanation > for this in my last post. Perhaps, it is just me, > but I really think why the criminal mind of a > murderous dictator decides to engage in a certain > behavior, is a separate question. I will deal with > it in a separate post. However, you might find the > answers you are seeking in the following book: > "The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders : With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton", edited by Jerrold Post, published by the University of Michigan Press > Mario responds: > Sorry, Santosh, but I'm about as interested in a "post-hoc" psychological excuse for Saddam Hussein's behavior as the Jews in Buchenwald were interested in Adolf Hitler's psychological profile as they were being led to the gas chambers. Though Saddam was a psychopath, no one else has described him as anything but self centered, yet he lost his cushy dictatorship because of the WMDs. > The fact is that he had WMDs, and he was unable to show the world that he had disposed off them as he had agreed to in 1991. > On behalf of the Shia and Kurds, who represent over 80% of Iraq's population, Thank God it was not Santosh in the White House, now making "post-hoc" psychological excuses for Saddam Hussein's "criminal mind", a mind so "criminal" that he was unable to show the UN inspectors that he "had no WMDs" after he had presumaby destroyed these. > Santosh's desire to have such a supposedly deranged "criminal mind" continue as the oppressive leader of a country that was harboring and encouraging worldwide terrorism in a post 9/11 world is itself something that I find hard to comprehend. > Maybe he can explain that, rather than try to show that he was right about Saddam's WMDs, a subject that is now irrelevant to everyone except Santosh.
